Assignments

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Assignment 1

  • Due Monday by the end of class
  • Register to be part of the wiki.
  • Label your page with your name.
  • Add a Table of Contents
  • Each Assignment should be a heading

Assignment 2

  • Due Tuesday morning
  • Find 3 podcasts:
    • one that you could use with your students.
    • one that you would use for your own professional development.
    • one that you would listen to for pleasure or to support a hobby you have.
  • On your wiki page
    • Write a short description of each podcast
    • paste a link to each of the podcasts
    • Example:
      • For Students: Animal Crackers: Bookworm presents information about bookworms in a game show format. Three explanations are provided, but only one explanation is true. Shows footage of real bookworms. Yuck!
  • As you find other podcasts that might be of interest to others in the class, please add them to the Class Podcast Page. Be sure to label the podcast with the name and the audience.
  • Look at two other class members pages to see what podcasts they recommend.

Assignment 3

  • Due Tuesday morning
  • Read pages 1, 2, 7 and 19 of the following article
  • Be prepared for a group conversation.

Assignment 4

  • Due Tuesday
  • Read: Dunbar, Folwell. " Teaching With Tunes: 21 Ideas for Incorporating Music Throughout the Curriculum." TechLearning 1 Apr 2008 Retrieved 2 Jul 2008 <http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196605120>
  • Write a summary on your wiki page of how one of these ideas might work in your classroom. Be sure to add the heading Assignment 4

Assignment 5

  • Due Wednesday morning
  • Watch 21st Century School
  • Answer the following on the wiki page
    • Be sure to label it Assignment 5
    • What experiences in school really engage your students?
    • Do what ways do your students use technology in school as opposed to outside of school?
    • What was one take away from this video?
  • Be prepared for a group conversation.

Assignment 6

  • Due Wednesday
  • Pair up with a partner
  • Create an audio file in Audacity
    • interview your partner
    • introducing yourself
    • What grade or subject area you teach
    • How you might use this tool in your classroom
    • What plans do you have for using podcasting in your school setting?
  • Embed it on your wiki page.
  • Be sure to add the heading Assignment 6

Assignment 7

  • Due Wednesday
  • Set up an account in Delicious
  • Tag all of your bookmarks for this class with usmepc511 and any other tag you want
  • Join the network of at least 2 other peole in our class
  • List the name of your account on your wiki page under Assignment 7

Assignment 8

  • Due Thursday
  • What were two take aways from listening to Wes
  • Reflection

Assignment 9

  • Due Thursday
  • Read and watch the video Ellis, Ken. "Visual Acuity: From Consumers to Critics and Creators." Edutopia 13 July 2005 Retrieved 2 Jul 2008 <http://www.edutopia.org/node/1321>.
  • Be prepared for a group conversation.

Assignment 10

  • Due Thursday
  • Try one of the tools from the Vodcast tools list
  • Make a little presentation
  • Embed it on your wiki page
  • List it under Assignment 10

Assignment 11

  • Due Thursday
  • Write a summary of your idea for your final project.

Final Project

  • Due Friday
  • A lesson or small project idea that incorporates the use of podcasting or vodcating
  • it should include a collaborative component
  • Please include all the information on your wiki page (or create a new one that links from your page)
  • Include a sample of what the project might look like

Sample Projects